Second Party Congress

Plan of Article[1]

Written:Written at the end of September-beginning of October 1903Published:First published in 1927 inLenin Miscellany VI.

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Longawaited.

Whyslow? (Socialist-Revolutionaries and Social- Democrats. Really
      mass movement. Philistinism and politics.)

Chieftask of Congress: to give formal shape.

1(A)  Programme. Its significance. End of “nomad”

 period.[2]Bulwark in fight against liberals, Socialist-
      Revolutionaries, etc.

Guidein propaganda.

Guidein agitation.

2(B) Organisational Rules. Their significance. Centralism. Local
      autonomy. (2 central bodies.) Comradely attitude towards
      leaders. Personal and political relations. Working out interpretation
      and methods of applying the Rules.

-4 - (D) Withdrawal of Bund. Better openly. Tactics:
      explain harmfulness of isolation. (The Bundists’
      nationalism and organisational scurrilities.)

-5 -Minutes.

[1]No article of Lenin’s written according to this plan has been
      discov ered. The last paragraph of the plan, relating to the Bund, is
      expanded in the article “Maximum Brazenness and Minimum Logic”
      (pp. 59-65 of this volume).

[2]“End of ’nomad’ period"—the end of the ideological and
      organisational disunity among the Social-Democratic organisations.